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Old Potions, New Bottles
Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Punjab (1850-1945)SummaryOld potions, new bottles is a study of how indigenous medical learning and practices were recast and reformulated with the coming of...
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The Legacy of Vagbhata
SummaryVagbhata completes the “Great Three” (Brhatrayi) of Ayurveda, with his predecessors, Caraka and Susruta. His identity and period are controversial but a major section of the scholarly community...
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Islam and Healing
SummaryIndo-Muslim medicineâ€â€or the Unani traditionâ€â€developed in South Asia alongside Mughal political culture. While it healed the body, it also had a profound bearing on the social...
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Western Science in Modern India
Metropolitan Methods, Colonial PracticesSummary This book is about Western science in a colonial world. It asks: how do we understand the transfer and absorption of scientific knowledge across...
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NCHI : Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
SummaryInterest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history....
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Tribal Health and Medicine in Kerala
SummaryTribal Health and Medicine in Kerala Price: Rs. 150 Publisher:D C Books, Kottayam Author:N Viswanathan Nair ISBN 13: Tags: ethnomedicine
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Ayurvedic Medicine The Living Tradition
A Guide to Ayurvedic Generic FormulationsSummaryFor procuring Medicines various resources were tapped by Ancient scholars of Ayurveda. The medicines were systematically classified into three basic...
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Medical Pluralism in Contemporary India
SummaryMedical Pluralism in Contemporary India questions the dominant view of indigenous systems of medicine as cultural remnants of a traditional past. It points out that their practitioners greatly...
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A Textbook of Clinical Pharmacy Practice, (2/e)
SummaryThis book aims to equip pharmacists with the knowledge and skills required to discharge their clinical pharmacy practice responsibilities in the Indian scenario. The focus is on providing...
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Medical Encounters in British India
SummaryThis volume explores the nature of interactions between the East and the West in the field of medicine. It brings into focus conditions and historical processes through which there was an...
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Medicinal Plants
SummaryIndia is very rick in biodiversity, housing, aroun 6-12 per cent of world's total species of plants. This mega-diversity is intricately related to the socio-cultural practices of the country....
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Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
SummaryAngiotensin II is a very potent chemical that causes the muscles surrounding blood vessels to contract, thereby narrowing the vessels. The narrowing of the vessels increases the pressure within...
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Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the EndSummaryDoctors are trained to keep their patients alive as long as possible. But they are never taught how to prepare people to die. And yet for many patients,...
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Reason and Medicine
Art and science of healing from antiquity to modern timesSummary There is no such thing as Chinese, Hindu, Islamic or European physics or chemistry. Why then are there distinct schools of medicine...
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Reason and Medicine
Art and science of healing from antiquity to modern timesSummary There is no such thing as Chinese, Hindu, Islamic or European physics or chemistry. Why then are there distinct schools of medicine...
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